{"id":314153,"date":"2019-07-22T05:39:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314153"},"modified":"2019-07-22T05:39:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:39:41","slug":"indias-second-moon-mission-chandrayaan-2-to-launch-today-at-2-43-pm-isro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indias-second-moon-mission-chandrayaan-2-to-launch-today-at-2-43-pm-isro\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to launch today at 2.43 pm: ISRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314158 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chandryan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/chandryan-2.jpg 604w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/chandryan-2-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/chandryan-2-502x420.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 20-hour countdown for the launch of India&#8217;s moon mission Chandrayaan-2 began at 6.43 pm on Sunday. Chandrayaan-2 is set to be launched on Monday afternoon at 2.43 pm from Satish\u00a0Dhawan\u00a0Space Centre in\u00a0Sriharikota,\u00a0Andhra\u00a0Pradesh, the second attempt since its lift-off was aborted due to a technical snag.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFilling of N204 for the liquid core stage (L110) of #GSLVMkIII-M1 completed today (22.07.2019) at 0240 hrs IST,\u201d ISRO said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The previous launch was aborted 56 minutes left for the countdown on July 15 after a technical snag was discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The quick remedial action was taken by a team set up to look into the snag, ISRO said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, ISRO Chairman K Sivan on the eve of launch had said that all preparations were on and the snag had been rectified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Whatever technical glitch we observed on July 15 has been rectified, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cChandrayaan 2 is an Indian lunar mission that will boldly go where no country has ever gone before \u2014 the Moon&#8217;s south polar region. Through this effort, the purpose is to improve our understanding of the Moon \u2014 discoveries that will benefit India and humanity as a whole.,\u201d a statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20-hour countdown for the launch of India&#8217;s moon mission Chandrayaan-2 began at 6.43 pm on Sunday. Chandrayaan-2 is set to be launched on Monday afternoon at 2.43 pm from Satish\u00a0Dhawan\u00a0Space Centre in\u00a0Sriharikota,\u00a0Andhra\u00a0Pradesh, the second attempt since its lift-off was aborted due to a technical snag.\u00a0 \u201cFilling of N204 for the liquid core stage (L110) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10570,974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314159,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314153\/revisions\/314159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}